RFC/Protocol Quantification

[vathsa]

Hi Group,
I was thinking about methods to quantify a protocol's conformity to its
RFC. What could be the possible metrics that I could consider while
quantifying the conformity of any protocol's implementation to its RFC?

Let me make myself more clear with an example: Lets say I am validating
a particular TCP implementation on a server. I need to see how much of
the TCP implementation is in accord with RFC 793. After the analysis of
implementaion, once I know what parts of the RFC is implemented and
what part of it is not, I need to come up with a number and say
something like, 93% of TCP implementation on this server is in
agreement with RFC 793 and 7% of it is not!

So to quantify like this, I should have some metrics to weigh a given
RFC. Does anyone have any idea as to how any given RFC could be divided
into various components and then assigned a weightage which could then
be used as a reference to check other implemenations??

Some of the components that I have in mind are:
1. Packet structure
2. Query format
3. State transitions

If you have any ideas, I will be very much willing to know about it.

Thanks,
Vathsa

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme]

[vathsa]:
>
> Hi Group,

you're probably talking into a void, this group is defunct. check out
ietf.org for a relevant mailing list instead (I honestly don't know if
there is any working group where this is specifically on topic, so the
general ie...@ietf.org may be your best bet.)

(your post was very interesting, but I can't offer any advice.)
--
Kjetil T.